Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,628 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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3) Cheraw, South Carolina (1820- )
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(2001) Diahann Carroll, “Keeping Up the Good Fight, Winning the Crusade Against Cancer”
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The Moore’s Ford Lynching (July 1946)
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Marita Odette Bonner (1899-1971)

Explore Global African History

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Maseru, Lesotho (1869- )
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o (AKA James T. Ngugi) (1938- )
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Port-au-Spain, Trinidad (1650- )
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Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park (2006- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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African Americans and Cuba’s First Experiment in Castro-Era Tourism: The Joe Louis Commission in Post Revolutionary Havana, 1959-1960
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Is The Help Realistic? It Depends.
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The 1928 Bunion Derby: America’s Brush with Integrated Sports
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“Mad Men” in Black: African Americans in the Twentieth Century U.S. Advertising Industry

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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